Page 2 Frida^October^^J^lO SOUTHERN OREGON MINER G eneral Students Refuse to Register for ft Vote Fraud HUGH S. JOHNSON Frilled Curtain» Give Glamour to Window« * Hy RUTH WYETH SPEAKS Washington. D. C. Washington. D. C. EMBARGO ON JAPAN DEBATED COMMUNITY CHESTS The group inside the cabinet In these critical days there is so which favors a complete stoppage much hot stuff in war and politics of Japan's raw materials of war, to write columns about that one is especially her oil, includes Secre­ tempted to neglect things less dra­ tary of War Stimson. Secretary of matic but at least of the Navy Knox. Secretary of Interior importance to Amer­ Ickes, and Secretary of the Treas­ ica equal to the ury Morgenthau—also certain admi­ clash of empires and rals in the navy. Perhaps it is sig­ the fall of states. nificant that the strongest advocates The national Com­ of complete embargoes against Ja­ munity Chest drive pan are the three Republican mem­ is now under way bers of the cabinet—Stimson. Knox all over this country. and Ickes. It is the most sensi­ On the other hand, the state de­ ble and scientific partment plus some of the admirals method for practical favor a go-slow policy toward Ja- charity ever devel- pan They believe in applying the i Hugh Johnson oped. There was a embargoes gradually, or as Mr. time when this country went drive- Ickes describes it. “cutting off the 1 crazy. Well meaning people, wheth­ dog’s tail by inches.’* er they were simply riding a worthy The state department concurs that • hobby or backing a far worthier cutting off Japan’s oil would para­ ' cause, could always drum up a lyze her fleet after her present 2H house-to-house gimme campaign, or months' supply was exhausted. But ■ post pretty girls rattling dime-in-the- they also believe it would force Ja­ slot cans on every street corner. • • • pan to move into the Dutch East This soundphoio shows students of the Union Theological Seminary in Indies immediately in order to get Maurice M. Milligan. U. 8. attor­ The average American is always New York city who refused to register for the selective military service. more oil. willing to give something if he has They are shown leaving the federal building after they had appeared ney for the Western District of Mis­ Last week one argument over this it By the old helter-skelter meth­ before the U. S. grand jury. Failure to register in accordance with the souri. named to conduct nation-wide point and over general naval policy od, he couldn't know exactly for selective service act carries severe penalties. However, very few incidents Investigation into frauds In connec­ in the Far East developed into a what he was giving, how the money of failure to register have been reported to authorities. tion with the national election. hot debate between the navy, on one would be used, or whether there side, and Hull and Welles on the were not far better uses for his other. It took place at the White contribution. Also, these “drives” ohe House, in front of the President, who became so frequent that many peo­ did most of the listening. ple either were fed up with the con­ Hull and Welles contended that if stantly repeated annoyance of solici­ we stopped Japan’s oil supply she tation. or simply couldn't afford to would certainly attack the Dutch | give any more. The earlier bird got East Indies, and that the United the dough regardless of its merits. States could not possibly afford to The community chest idea was an have ships in that area because they ' answer to most of these problems, might be needed in Atlantic waters. j In many cities it is the only "drive” Welles pointed out that the Germans J permitted. In nearly all cities it at might seize the Azores or the French least combines in one. all “drives” naval base at Dakar. West Africa, for the worthiest established chari- which would menace South America. j ties. It is conducted under the most To this. Admiral Leahy, now gov­ responsible sponsorships there are. ernor of Puerto Rico and one of j t This year both the President and^ Roosevelt’s closest naval advisers. 1 Mr. Willkie will start the effort The* I funds collected will be divided by replied: “Gentlemen, we don’t have to the best-informed authorities among worry about Dakar and the Azores the institutions where they are most now. The British fleet can still pre­ needed, and will go the furthest to vent Germany from taking them. meet human needs. But a few months from now it may be different By next spring, or It is, of course, more heart-warm­ even this winter, the war may have ing to give directly to some person gone against the British in the Med­ or group whose suffering you can iterranean, and then we'U have two see, but none of us can give enough Adam Sswajkart Jr., 13. refugee These British subjects evacuated Hong Kong. Mrs. A. Stout, left, and oceans to defend. Now we have to meet all the needs of our neigh­ Mrs. IL Crutwell, signing off ship at Sydney. Australia. Notice how they from Poland, secs his father, hr. bors. None of us separately can carry their babies around—an idea picked up in the Orient. Americans, Adam Sswajkart. of Chicago, for the only one.” • • • judge relative needs. Few of us too, have been requested by this government to come home from Far first time when hr arrived at Chi­ U. S.-BORN JAPANESE have the time or training to manage Eastern points as the tension in that area increases. I cago’s municipal airport. Only insiders are aware of it, but and regulate our giving. For these the new nationality act slaps down reasons, indiscriminate giving is al­ another embargo on Japan. ways wasteful and sometimes far It plugs up a hole in the old immi­ from fair. The Community Chest gration laws which permitted Amer­ method cures all these faults and ican-born Japanese to go to Japan, shortcomings in the best way. serve several years in the Japanese The tremendous sums of public army, then return to the U. S. A. money being expended for relief and and resume citizenship. This has ; charity greatly restrict the flow of gifts, for ____________ two reasons. The tax bur- been quite common among the large ’ „ __ ____ __________ Japanese population in Hawaii, dens necessary to support them re- where many Japanese parents con- duce the incomes of potential giv- sider it their duty to the emperor ers. The billions spent by govern- to send their children to Japan for ment make some people believe that ——------ :[ there is no longer necessity for pri­ military service. That the new iaw is specifically vate giving. aimed at Japan—and her Axis al­ lies—is shown by the fact that when The fapt is that the necessity is the act was originally written, any­ gt eater than ever. Low interest one who enlisted in a foreign army rates have cut the revenue of many automatically forfeited citizenship. endowed charities in half or worse. This would have expatriated Ameri- ' Public doles can never cover the cans serving with the Canadian and ' area of need. Finally, no warm­ British armies. hearted American can ever feel The bill actually passed the house quite satisfied with charity enforced, in this form, but then the senate or to leave his humanitarian im­ immigration committee did some pulses to acts of congress. If there editing. As finally passed, citizen- had ............. ............. ------- voluntary ---------- sharing been far more i ship is not lost if no oath of alle-; through past years, there would be sss InlrAM f* rtwrl D w »♦ 1« • • a ■ > . » • giance is taken. Canada and Brit- ies> regimented sharing today—with a in do not require the oath of Ameri-; all the political evils that entails. cans. Japan and her Axis pals do. I The demands upon us all are great Note—The new law also provides and the woes of the world will great­ that American parents of children ly increase them. It will be well bom abroad must have resided in for us to remember that there are the U. S. at least 10 years prior to a still great woes in our own country birth in order to transmit citizen­ and that there is nothing in the least ship. This is aimed at expatriates selfish in the motto: “Charity be­ who retain their citizenship, with all gins at home.” • • • its obligations on the government to protect them, but don't think enough NAVAL BASE AFTERMATH of the United States to live in it. The acquisition of naval bases was • • • highly popular. It was said in de­ Chief Justice Charles Evans A Lockheed bomber, the first of several bombers which are being ARMY PROMOTIONS fense of the President’s method of Any lowly recruit in the new con­ obtaining them, that if he had con­ manufactured in this country for the British government, which took Hughes, leaving home for the open­ script army has a chance to be- sulted congress, the deal would not off recently from the Detroit city airport on the Anal leg of its flight ing of the new session of the U. 8. come an officer within the single have been,permitted. Present evi­ from California. The camouflaged plane is shown in the hangar where Supreme court. A majority of the members are Roosevelt appointees. year of training. dences of popular approval of this It had been placed under a special guard. There has been a lot of confusion result, as far as the bases are con­ about this, and editorials have been cerned, make this conclusion highly written complaining that this is not doubtful. Be that as it may, there is possible. But Gen. George C. Mar­ no doubt on earth that congress shall, chief of staff, wants it known would ratify the result today with that the army is still democratic, scarcely a dissenting vote. Marshall points out that after the It should do so. It is of extreme first nine months of service, any importance. If the only restraint on recruit has a chance to qualify for the executive in dealing with the the “candidate schools i” 1 to train re- laws of the Constitution of the Unit­ cruits for commissions, These ed States is the possible unpopulari­ schools will be organized during the ty of the result, we have surely suc­ last three months of the year of cumbed to what Westbrook Pegler service. calls the "what-the-hell” philosophy In other words, as Napoleon put of laws, morals and obligations. Any­ it, “Every soldier carries a mar« thing goes if it succeeds regardless shal’s baton in his knapsack. of law or principle. • • • • • • POLITICAL CHAFF A sovereign nation can do any­ Democratic Rep. Bill Schulte of thing it wants and dares to do. It Indiana won a lot of kudos for him­ is answerable to nobody. It can de­ self from both the A. F. of L. and clare war or it can authorize acts C. I. O. for his “prevailing wage” of war without a declaration. In amendments to the bill for the con­ taking such action, it may be break­ struction of barracks for draftees. ing treaties, but, under our Constitu- Liberal Rep. Frank Havenner of *'.on, a treaty of the United States San Francisco got an unusual send- is on equal footing with a law of off when he departed to open his Capt. Thomas Stewart of the British freighter, Corrientcs, in Phila­ George Washingicn, of the British campaign. President Roosevelt sent the United States. A duly enacted delphia talking with the 50 members of his crew who were saved after branch of the family that gave us statute, so far as our municipal law him a “good luck” telegram and their vessel, part of a North Atlantic convoy, had been torpedoed while our first President, arrives in New Speaker Sam Rayburn a letter hail­ is concerned, can break or repeal 500 miles off the British coast. The men took to lifeboats and were York from South America, en route any prior treaty, just as it can break ing him as one of the most valuable picked up four hours later by a Swedish freighter. for the British army. members of the house. or repeal any prior law. Flee H Konti American Bombers for Great Britain Ship Torpedoed—But They're Here! United in f Justice British Washington '■pHE newest frilled curUi.m give * a full, luviah effect. *f thoy niuke your old curtains look n bit dejected, like those shown here nt the right, don’t be diacourugcd. The window nt the left uses those some curtnina with a dash of glamour added. Thia economy trick saved u certain young ma- êrrôRt. TTT chin ’ z . ì I tron enough money to buy a num­ ber of smart new accessories for her living room. She discovered that a diagonal dart, which took up the curtain» at the back, threw more fullness to the front, thus giving the new high drape u smart line. 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